Tyre Nichols' family attorney Ben Crump announces $500 million civil lawsuit against the city of Memphis and members of the police department over the death of Tyre Nichols, that Crump calls 'savage, brutal, dehumanizing.'
Tyre Nichols in a 2020 photo, in Conway, Ark.Tyre Nichols' mother has sued the city of Memphis and members of the police department over hisHer attorney, Ben Crump, said the lawsuit is seeking $550 million for the "torture" of Nichols, 29, who died three days after he was beaten by police during a Jan. 7 traffic stop.
The 139-page, 25-count civil complaint, filed Wednesday in federal court, includes allegations of excessive force and "deliberate indifference to serious medical needs," and called the traffic stop "unreasonable.
"This has nothing to do with the monetary value of this lawsuit, but everything that has to do with accountability," Wells said during Wednesday's briefing. "Those five police officers murdered my son. They beat him to death. And they need to be held accountable along with everyone else that has something to do with my son's murder.
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